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Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by o123456789(m): 11:53am On Jan 15 |
jabor4Naija:Two factor authentication is not a bullet proof against hacking...The pure truth is that no technology is 100% secure as of today, because hundreds of ways to hack each and every technology is continually in development and they are released every second. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Igboslayer: 12:12pm On Jan 15 |
PoliteActivist:You have no idea |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Tilewizy: 12:18pm On Jan 15 |
symbianDON: So quick question. 1. Is it the phone, I mean bank apps. that is hacked or the whatsap alone? 2. Then what is the implication for either one of them? This almost happened to me last week. The person called through whatsap in the afternoon from a so called WhatsApp group I belonged to, which is true. He said we have a meeting by 8 pm and that a link for the zoom meeting has been sent to me and the code to use in connecting. I said no problem and has God would have it. My phone was on loud speaker, so I wasn't close to it. He now said I should send the code sent to me so he can tick attendance. I was like, wtf? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ You sent me a code to login in to a zoom meeting and you are asking I send it back to you. I was like, no problem I would join the zoom meeting, so long as I have the time in the evening by 8pm. He kept persisting, that was how I ended the call just like that. I just became irritated by the while thing. When I pressed the screen of my phone to see who actually called, I realised a code sent to me and I almost clicked on "ok", since it was what automatically was displaying on the screen, it's something you can't easily miss, except you are a bit careful. One can mistakenly click on the "ok". I was just lucky to tap on the "back" option on the phone screen, and that was how God saved me. This is not the issue that one is greedy and that they would say you fell for the trick. Person just dey him dey, the same technology that has come to help us, is now what they use to taunt us. What can one really do to prevent this? 1 Like |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Tilewizy: 12:24pm On Jan 15 |
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Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by PoliteActivist: 2:19pm On Jan 15 |
webincomeplus: I'm pretty sure there's no one in their inner circle that'll whatsapp them for 5m "to be paid back next Friday". Very rich folks are simply NOT that way with money 1 Like |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by payaseriy: 2:40pm On Jan 15 |
Omoawoke2:your sin is more than that of that man. You declared war on God and his prophet |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Omoawoke2(m): 2:42pm On Jan 15 |
payaseriy: Why do you keep spamming every thread, creating fake monikers to advertise your failed business. TB Joshua no give you job? 1 Like |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by payaseriy: 3:40pm On Jan 15 |
Omoawoke2:what am i spamming. Aren't you the hypocrite spamming trends to defy God ? |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by symbianDON(m): 3:48pm On Jan 15 |
Tilewizy:1. It's only whatsapp that's hackable via this means 2. Once hacked, your account can be used by the hacker for anything! Mostly though, they would usually only send messages soliciting for money from your contacts. A typical message goes thus; Hello! Please i need to send 100k to someone urgently but my bank's network is bad. Kindly help send it. I will refund it as soon as the network is ok. Please send it to 80******* Palmpay. Thanks.. You were quite lucky to have pressed the back/cancel button otherwise you would have been hacked if you had pressed OK. Most people actually press OK inadvertently and get hacked! In your own case, the hacker tried a double-pronged attack: the link method as well as the direct reset/request method. If you haven't already set up a 2-factor authentication, do so now. 1 Like |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Deemas(m): 6:18pm On Jan 15 |
PoliteActivist: You can set your limit upto 5m as you progress with transaction in the app that I use. Furthermore, if Mr A's level of risk as per scam is high, that of Mr B might be low. It is well, may we not fall victim of scammers. |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Tilewizy: 6:19pm On Jan 15 |
symbianDON: Thanks for your time. I'm grateful. Yeah there's actually 2 - factor authentication on the setting was wondering how that failed. Its just God saved me. |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by PoliteActivist: 7:09pm On Jan 15 |
Deemas: *Politeness* Honestly why I made the statement is because a friend had like experience recently. He sent a loan of 50K to a friend, not knowing it was scam. He told everyone he sent 500K. That's human nature. As long as they know u have no way of knowing the amount they actually sent! |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Deemas(m): 7:16pm On Jan 15 |
PoliteActivist: Sharp men everywhere in naija 😂 1 Like |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by PoliteActivist: 7:25pm On Jan 15 |
Deemas: The senator may not be lying but his friends very likely are. Some may not even have sent anything |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Deemas(m): 7:26pm On Jan 15 |
PoliteActivist: I get your point my brother - in case the senator wants to consider a refund 1 Like |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by PoliteActivist: 8:57pm On Jan 15 |
Deemas: Voila! Or be in his good books for lending him millions without even troubling him with verification |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Mandate1: 10:00pm On Jan 15 |
Connoisseur:nice profile name. |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by Connoisseur(m): 10:50pm On Jan 15 |
Mandate1: Gee, thanks Profile names were very much available to choose in the early years. It'd be hard now for the good ones are already taken |
Re: Tokunbo Afikuyomi: How Scammers Hacked My Phone, Defrauded My Friends by BALLOSKI: 11:28pm On Jan 15 |
We told them this, but they don't care, until it happens to them. Their staff can even login, take the snapshot of your account and send to hackers, so they can help pull money from your account. |
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